Category: Correspondence

How Jill Stein can Help Barack Obama

July 18  We asked Lester Grinspoon, the grand old man of the medical marijuana movement, “What’s your line on Jill Stein, MD (the Green Party candidate for President)? She sounded great in the NY Times piece and on...

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“The guy with the red hair”

July 24  From Tom O’Connell, MDMedia coverage of the murderous rampage in Colorado has portrayed James Holmes as “evil.” Have these reporters never heard of the disorder called “Schizophrenia” that...

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July 1, 2012

From Kris Hermes, ASA’s media specialist, in reference to Cities Balk as Federal Law on Marijuana Is Enforced, a big piece by Norimitsu Onishi in today’s New York Times. I was seriously misquoted in this article...

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June 4

From Gary G. You may have seen this article in Discovery about drugs targeting CB1 and CB2. Here’s the link: http://discovermagazine.com/2011/nov/18-how-pot-cocaine-hunger-intersect-in-brain Hadn’t seen it, thanks...

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May 10, 2012

From Lester Grinspoon re: Cannabis & Bipolar Disorder I just received this e-mail which I find most interesting, and not simply because it confirms my view that cannabis can be helpful to those with bipolar disorder, but as...

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